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DECEMBER 19, 2023

EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online].

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. In recent years, as U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003. But Lawrence Mishel, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute, sees it much differently: “I think we’re way past that tipping point.”. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. The school favors conflict mediation over zero-tolerance policies as a way to prepare young people to handle themselves once they head to college and jobs.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

She worked physically demanding jobs until 2003 when she was injured, went back to school for office administration and found a job working for an attorney. Growing up in Texas decades earlier, she struggled too. She married at 14, had five children, endured abusive relationships and spent a few years in prison on drug charges.

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OPINION: The crisis in black student debt was dire before coronavirus — now it’s more urgent than ever

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Half of black borrowers who entered college in the 2003-04 academic year defaulted on their loans within 12 years. A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters.

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college. At one Florida middle school, students learned about laws by writing bills — and in 2003, one of those bills made it to the Florida legislature.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation rates among participating schools had risen from 65 percent to nearly 80 percent , while dropout rates declined.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a state that sends one out of every eight black men to prison, the highest rate in the country , this neighborhood bears a disproportionate brunt of the mass incarceration policy, with more African-American men from here locked up than from any other zip code in Milwaukee County. Black schools for black children. The trade-off.

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